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Recycling Facts Click on the different items listed below to learn more about recycling and waste: Aluminum Cans General Waste Glass Newspaper Paper Plastic Aluminum Cans * Aluminum cans go from recycling bin back to the shelf at the grocery store in as little as 60 days. (Novelis Recycling) * Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours or a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. (CU Recycling) * The energy saved each year through recycled aluminum cans could light the city of Washington, D.C. for almost 4 years. (CU Recycling) * You can make 20 recycled aluminum cans with the energy it takes to make one new aluminum can from bauxite ore. (Windstar Institute) General Waste * Each of us generates about 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person. (CU Recycling) * In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage. (CU Recycling) Glass * Recycling one glass bottle saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours. (EPA) Newspaper * Recycling a four-foot stack of newspapers saves the equivalent of one 40-foot fir tree. (CU Recycling) * If we recycled all of the newspaper for one Sunday, we would save 550,000 trees or about 26 million trees per year. (CA Dept. of Conservation) Paper * Paper made from recycled paper instead of virgin fiber requires 70% less energy. (Solcom House) * One ton of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water. (CU Recycling) * One ton of recycled paper uses: 64% less energy, 50% less water, 74% less air pollution, saves 17 trees and creates 5 times more jobs than one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp. (CU Recycling) * If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of about 25 million trees a year. (CU Recycling) Plastic * Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. (Solcom House) * Five recycled soft drink bottles make enough fiberfill for a man’s ski jacket. Thirty-six recycled bottles can make one square yard of carpet. (Colorado Recycles)

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